[85: Hermippus Redivivus; or The Sage’s
Triumph over Old Age
and
the Grave (translated
from the Latin of Cohausen, with
annotations), 1743.
Dr. Johnson pronounced the volume “very
entertaining as an account
of the hermetic philosophy and as
furnishing a curious
history of the extravagancies of the
human
mind,” adding
“if it were merely imaginary it would be
nothing at
all.”]

[86: St. Leon, vol. iv. ch, xiii.]

[87: St. Leon, Bk. iv, ch. v.]

[88: Lives of the Necromancers, 1834,
Preface. “The main purpose
of
this book is to exhibit
a fair delineation of the credulity
of
the human mind.
Such an exhibition cannot fail to be
productive
of the most salutary
lessons.”]

[89: St. Godwin: A Tale of the 16th,
17th and 18th Century, by
Count
Reginald de St. Leon,
1800, p. 234.]

[90: Dowden, Life of Shelley, vol. i.
p. 10.]

[91: Dowden, Life of Shelley, vol. i.
p. 44.]

[92: Hogg, Life of Shelley, vol. i. p.
15.]

[93: Cf. Castle of Lindenberg story in The
Monk, and ballad of Alonzo the Brave.]

[94: A versification of the story of the Wandering
Jew, Bleeding
Nun
and Don Raymond in The
Monk.]

[95: This poem was borrowed from Lewis’s
Tales of Terror
(without
Shelley’s knowledge),
where it is entitled The Black Canon
of
Elmham, or St. Edmond’s
Eve.]